The World's Greatest Short Stories
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Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges — imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D. H. Lawrence, and ten other great writers. Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students and teachers as well as to anyone who appreciates the finely turned tale.
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An excellent selection of short stories from around the world. Some were familiar (The Yellow Wallpaper, The Garden-Party, The Lady With The Toy Dog), others were new to me and a pleasant surprise. My favorites were: The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket, The Prussian Officer, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Necklace, The Garden-Party and The Yellow Wallpaper.
The stories included in this collection are:
- Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
- The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant
- The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
- The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
- The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Fortune-Teller - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- The Lady With The Toy Dog - Anton Chekhov
- How Old Timofei Died With A Song - Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Path To The Cemetery - Thomas Mann
- The Prussian Officer - DH Lawrence
- Araby - James Joyce
- Mrs Frola and Mr Ponza - Luigi Pirandello
- The Mark On The Wall - Virginia Woolf
- A Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka
- The Garden-Party - Katherine Mansfield
- The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket - Yasunari Kawabata
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Ernest Hemingway
- The Sacrificial Egg - Chinua Achebe
- A & P - John Updike
- Borges And I - Jorge Luis Borges
